Met her fifth husband, theatre manager Percy Gibson,
when Collins appeared in a touring production of the play "Love
Letters" in the United States. Gibson helped edit Collins's new novel,
"Star Quality". She was 68 and he was 36.

Refused to return to work on Dinastía
(1981) at the beginning of the 1985-1986 season until she was given a
raise, forcing the writers to write her out of the first episode of the
season. It was a bold move on her part, because the previous season's
cliffhanger was the infamous "Moldavian Massacre", in which all the
characters were shot. It would have been very easy for the producers to
fire her and eliminate the character of Alexis by having her being
killed in the shootout. However, she successfully negotiated a raise to
around $60,000 per episode and returned to work, missing only one
episode.

Only appeared in 13 of 22 episodes during the final season of Dinastía (1981) because the producers told her they couldn't afford to pay her every week.

Personal Quotes

In 1984: "I enjoyed being an adulteress... taking a certain
vengeance for the fact that my husband was not being faithful."

The unfortunate statistics are that there are far more available
and fabulous over-40 women than there are available and fabulous over-40
men.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre
actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I
would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of
money. I created a lifestyle for myself. Nobody else did it for me.
Everything I have I've bought with my own money.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

[speaking in 1995] "I was thinking, who of the English actresses
in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?"

Age, in my opinion, has no bearing at all, that is unless, of course, one happens to be a bottle of wine.

[on Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday] "She's the Iron Lady and I want to be just like that when I grow up".

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

On her guest starring role on La conquista del espacio
(1966): "People still want to talk to me about that episode - some
remember me more for that than anything else I've done" (Sept/Oct 2006
Star Trek Magazine, Issue #1).

[on her character in El placer
(1979)] She appears to have the world by the balls, but underneath
she's trying to solve the problem of loneliness, which I think is the
universal problem of all rich people.

Dinastía (1981) was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than walking around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Even when you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

[on Italian film director Roberto Rossellini] Rossellini was a stubborn, opinionated genius who had total autonomy over all his productions.

[on George Peppard]
He's arrogant -- the sort of man who expects women to fall at his feet
at the slightest command; who throws his weight around. He gives the
impression that he's the star, what he says goes and that nobody else is
very important.

On success: Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

[on the death of longtime friend and former teacher, John Forsythe,
who played Blake Carrington]: He was one of the last of the true
gentlemen of the acting profession. I enjoyed our nine years of feuding,
fussing and fighting as the Carringtons.

[on her experience of a real life haunting in Venice, Italy] There is no way I am staying another night in this palazzo.

[on James Dean] Intense, moody, incredible charisma. He was short,
myopic, not good-looking in life, really. ... I drove with Jimmy in his
new red Porsche once. We were pissed [drunk] and went down Sunset and I
was scared. He had the windows open, the music up, driving really fast.
He died in that same Porsche two or three months later. You know who he
was like? A young, better-looking Woody Allen, in a way. He had those
same qualities of shyness, uncertainty and insecurity.

The compartment that's easy to put me in is "freethinking, sexy
broad with a dirty mouth, who pretty much does what she wants." But
there's more to me than that.

My father is Jewish and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. (Gifs and photos: source_Tumblr)